2015/10/07

2015_10_07- Col hussey visit

2015_10_07

Roger and I had a side trip on Saturday. WE visited our old friend Colin Hussey and his wife Julie.
We were well entertained and enjoyed our visit. As always I was looking for hints and Col stepped up and showed the work he has completed on his Model Railway which is situated in a large shed.
The theme was to be backdrops and as Col introduced me to the sheets I purchased, it was good to see how he treated them on his layout. Let the pictures tell the story :)

Nice :) The clouds are made using templates of real clouds and then touched up with darkening pigments using an air brush.

2 comments:

I loved Col Hussey layout his trees are a good likeness of gum trees I don't where or what area Col models but the layout looks fun to drive, the photo number 16 has a good big gum in it. I was also thinking of local ballast in the NE the VR used build the railway in the 60s and 70s Glenrowan had ballast from the Quarry to south of town still operating today is a pinkish granite. there is also a quarry at Barnnawartha North south of the Murray Valley Highway turn off I will have to see if I can get some small rocks and some how to crush it The Wahgunyah line used white quarz from mine mullock heaps in the area Do you think this is a good idea. Malcolm Aldridge

Hey Malcolm, missed your comment, Sorry :) I think you got to try it and see how it looks.If you can get to one of the mullock heaps I am sure a shovel full and a good sieve will get you what you want :)I keep telling people that the North East had two colours of ballast on the main. You, Sir, are one of the few who seem to recognize that. The SG between Seymour and Wodonga was ballasted with rock obtained from Glenrowan as you say. The BG was ballasted from the South with Blue stone. I ran up and down the gauge for 25 years and it was always a pink stone. Now of course the Glenrowan Siding is long gone and the Gauge is turning blue ;)CheersRod

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About my Railway

The Australian National Railways was established by the Whitlam Federal Government following a commitment made in the 1972 election to invite the states to hand over their railway systems to the federal government. In July 1975 Australian National Railways was formed taking over the operations of the federal government owned Commonwealth Railways.

The state governments of South Australia and Tasmania whose railway systems were deeply in debt, accepted. During the next two years discussions between these two states and the federal government resulted in a number of staffing and operating agreements being made that resulted in all South Australian Railways services (except for the Adelaide metropolitan passenger network) and all Tasmanian Government Railways services transferring to Australian National Railway in March 1978, the latter being re-branded AN Tasrail.

At first Victoria declined to hand over its Railways, however a change of Government after Bolte retired meant Victoria could be absorbed into AN as well. Despite doing everything they could to tarnish ALP leader Clyde Holding, The ALP were able to defeat Hamer who was seen to be just another Bolte, doing more of the same into the future.

Clyde Holding handed over Victorian Railways to the Commonwealth where it prospered as a division of AN retaining its VR colours until later when AN decided to re-brand it as V/Line.

My Railway thus reflects what could have been ;)And of course National Rail (Pacific National) has no place in my little scenario. Australian National was never privatised and has continually taken East Coast loads off the Highways. As well many branch lines were upgraded and Whitlam's policy of decentralisation actually moved employment to towns with a ready pool of workers, which of course took the pressure of Melbourne which was starting to expand as bush kids moved away from the Country in search of education and employment ( just as Gough Whitlam envisaged it would do)Rod Young

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At Wodonga after being towed into loco following my Kelly Street Accident. A semi load of dog food ran the level crossing derailing the 1220 Down Pass

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